Gunther Martin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5626568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gunther Martin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gunther |
| FAMILY NAME | Martin |
| SIGNATURE | MARTIN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Bern, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Bern, Schweiz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Thomas Blank, Felix K. Maier (Hrsgg.)
Pragmatic Approaches to Drama
discourse analysis, and pragmatics.He has a special interest in cognitive linguistic and narratological approaches to Greek narrative texts.
Christopher Collard
Nothing but Rhetoric? Rhetoric, Pragmatics and Myth-Making in the Agōn of Euripides’ Alcestis
This paper draws on Euripides’ Alcestis to propose a new way of approaching the tragic agōn . It reads the debate scene of that play not as a rhetorical showpiece but as a piece of dialogue and an interaction that follows the principles of communicative pragmatics. In this interpretation Admetus and Pheres do not aim to persuade each other about whether it would have been right for Pheres to sacrifice his life for his son; instead, father and son…
Euripides, "Ion"
Euripides' Ion is a highly complex and elusive play and thus poses considerable difficulties to any interpreter. On the basis of a new recension of the text, this commentary offers explanations of the language, literary technique, and realia of the play and discusses the main issues of interpretation. In this way the reader is provided with the material required for an appreciation of this entertaining as well as provocative dramatic composition
Speeches to the Assembly and in Public Prosecutions (DEM. 1–24)
Chapter 28 examines Demosthenes’ speeches in public prosecutions and before the Assembly, including speeches delivered during the early part of his career in the aftermath of the Social War and those against Philip II of Macedon delivered starting with the First Philippic (352/1) down to his masterpiece On the Crown at the trial of Ctesiphon in 330. Several of the speeches from the first period of Demosthenes’ career concern public finances, such…
Law and Justice
Chapter 6 examines the role of law and justice in the speeches of Demosthenes and other Greek orators. The Demosthenic corpus consists of 42 judicial speeches in which issues of justice are central and legal cases are assessed for their conformity with the laws of Athens. After discussing how the laws and justice figure in the oratory of Demosthenes, in connection with the judges’ expectations and with the rules and institutional habits that dete…
Authenticity, Composition, Publication
Chapter 32 focuses on the authenticity, composition, and publication of Demosthenes’ speeches. In discussing authenticity, three alternatives need to be taken into consideration. A speech could be either a genuine work of Demosthenes, a real speech from fourth-century Athens wrongly attributed to Demosthenes, or a later composition. Most, if not all, of the speeches fall into the first two categories, while the last is possibly but not necessaril…
Public Opinion and the Arenas of Debate
Chapter 5 examines the role of public opinion in Athenian debates in philosophical circles, especially in arenas such as public assemblies and law courts. It begins with a discussion of the dêmos’ attitudes and positions that occur in speeches, particularly in the political speeches and the prosecution and defence speeches from public trials. More specifically, it considers the attitudes of the dêmos towards the social and political elite as well…
Corruption
Chapter 13 examines the problem of corruption in Classical Athens. There are numerous references to corruption in Demosthenes, Attic oratory, and Greek literature. In an Athenian context, corruption typically involved the bribery of prominent officials. A central issue is ‘katapolitical’ bribery, or bribery at the expense of public interests or with intention to damage institutions or the community. The article considers the institutional and leg…
A Dialogic Soliloquy
In Euripides’ Hecuba , both the scholia and modern interpreters detect a failure of communication in the farewell scene between the protagonist and Polyxena—though the scholiast names Polyxena as the source of the non-dialogue, whereas the modern commentators claim that neither character is engaging. This paper aims, firstly, by a slight redistribution of lines, to restore coherence to the dialogue. Secondly, it argues that it is Hecuba’s rather …
The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes
As a speechwriter, orator, and politician, Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his time. He was a key player in Athens in the twilight of the city’s independence, and today he is a primary source for her history and society in that period. The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes sets out to explore the many facets of the man’s life, work, and time. It gives particular weight to elucidating the setting and the contexts of his activity and some k…
The gods in the Athenian assembly
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Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion
Studied for many years by scholars with Christianising assumptions, Greek religion has often been said to be quite unlike Christianity: a matter of particular actions (orthopraxy), rather than particular beliefs (orthodoxies). This volume dares to think that, both in and through religious practices and in and through religious thought and literature, the ancient Greeks engaged in a sustained conversation about the nature of the gods and how to re…
Zum Angriff der Goten unter Kniva auf eine thrakische Stadt (Scythica Vindobonensia, f. 195v)
This paper completes the first presentation of the new historical fragments on Gothic incursions into the Balkans in the middle of the 3rd century AD. Coming most probably from the Scythica by Dexippus of Athens; the fragments have been preserved as palimpsest in the Vienna manuscript Vind. Hist. gr. 73. The paper contains a preliminary transcription; translation and analysis of one of the eight extant pages; fol. 195v; processed spectral images …
Ein neues Textstück aus den „Scythica Vindobonensia“ zu den Ereignissen nach der Eroberung von Philippopolis
Der vorliegende Beitrag enthält die erste Transkription einer weiteren Palimpsestseite der Scythica Vindobonensia, der neuen, vermutlich Dexippos von Athen zuzuweisenden Fragmenten zu den Goteneinfällen in den Balkanraum während des 3. Jh. n.Chr. Der neue Text (f. 194r des Codex Vind. Hist. gr. 73) schildert offenbar die bisher unbekannte Reaktion der Griechen auf die Neuigkeit, dass Kniva (im Jahr 250 n.Chr.) Philippopolis eingenommen habe: Die …
Interpreting Instability
The text that has been preserved among Plutarch's writings under the title βίοι τῶν δέκα ῥητόρων ( Lives of the Ten Orators , henceforth LTO ) is, on the one hand, an invaluable and often the best source about the canonical Attic orators: it is, for example, our only source for the verdict against Antiphon after the oligarchic revolution of 411 and for Lycurgus’ state copy of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. On the other hand,…
Praise and Persuasion
This chapter maintains that the two Idylls under examination (11 and 17) suggest the ubiquitousness of rhetorical culture and Theocritus' mastery of rhetorical art. They presuppose knowledge of rhetorical theory. Nevertheless, the rhetorical strategies employed suggest that the poet goes beyond the ‘dictates’ of contemporary theory. These two Idylls toy with the expectations of the audience by exposing the failures of mere adherence to rhetorical…
Meorum periculorum rationes utilitas rei publicae vincat . Zur Historizität der vierten Catilinaria
This paper proposes a reading of Cicero’s Fourth Catilinarian as a consistent and historically realistic attempt at urging the senate to punish the conspirators. Cicero struggles against the senators’ inclination to postpone a decision out of fear of the consequences which a severe sentence might have. The speech does not show signs of substantial revision or even contamination of several addresses Cicero made at different stages of the meeting o…
On the Date of Euripides' Ion
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Divine Talk
The corpus of the Attic orators has long been recognized as a source for information about the mindset and life of ordinary Athenians. This book contributes to a differentiated understanding of religion in the Athenian public discourse by studying the references to religion and the use made of them in the corpus; it explores how the prominent orators differ in the sets of motifs they employ, in their strategies of persuasion, and thus in the imag…
The Witness's Exomosia in Athens
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Xenophon Anabasis 1.10.12
Antipater After the Lamian War
New readings from an autopsy of the palimpsest Vat.gr. 73 help reconstruct an episode from Dexippus' "History after Alexander". It becomes possible to refute the theory of an Athenian bias of that work
Divine Talk
The corpus of the Attic orators has long been recognized as a source for information about the mindset and life of ordinary Athenians. This book contributes to a differentiated understanding of religion in the Athenian public discourse by studying the references to religion and the use made of them in the corpus; it explores how the prominent orators differ in the sets of motifs they employ, in their strategies of persuasion, and thus in the imag…
The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes
As a speechwriter, orator, and politician, Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his time. He was a key player in Athens in the twilight of the city’s independence, and today he is a primary source for her history and society in that period. The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes sets out to explore the many facets of the man’s life, work, and time. It gives particular weight to elucidating the setting and the contexts of his activity and some k…
Meorum periculorum rationes utilitas rei publicae vincat . Zur Historizität der vierten Catilinaria
This paper proposes a reading of Cicero’s Fourth Catilinarian as a consistent and historically realistic attempt at urging the senate to punish the conspirators. Cicero struggles against the senators’ inclination to postpone a decision out of fear of the consequences which a severe sentence might have. The speech does not show signs of substantial revision or even contamination of several addresses Cicero made at different stages of the meeting o…
On the Date of Euripides' Ion
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Law and Justice
Chapter 6 examines the role of law and justice in the speeches of Demosthenes and other Greek orators. The Demosthenic corpus consists of 42 judicial speeches in which issues of justice are central and legal cases are assessed for their conformity with the laws of Athens. After discussing how the laws and justice figure in the oratory of Demosthenes, in connection with the judges’ expectations and with the rules and institutional habits that dete…
Authenticity, Composition, Publication
Chapter 32 focuses on the authenticity, composition, and publication of Demosthenes’ speeches. In discussing authenticity, three alternatives need to be taken into consideration. A speech could be either a genuine work of Demosthenes, a real speech from fourth-century Athens wrongly attributed to Demosthenes, or a later composition. Most, if not all, of the speeches fall into the first two categories, while the last is possibly but not necessaril…
The Witness's Exomosia in Athens
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Antipater After the Lamian War
New readings from an autopsy of the palimpsest Vat.gr. 73 help reconstruct an episode from Dexippus' "History after Alexander". It becomes possible to refute the theory of an Athenian bias of that work
Xenophon Anabasis 1.10.12
The Witness's Exomosia in Athens
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Divine Talk
The corpus of the Attic orators has long been recognized as a source for information about the mindset and life of ordinary Athenians. This book contributes to a differentiated understanding of religion in the Athenian public discourse by studying the references to religion and the use made of them in the corpus; it explores how the prominent orators differ in the sets of motifs they employ, in their strategies of persuasion, and thus in the imag…
On the Date of Euripides' Ion
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Meorum periculorum rationes utilitas rei publicae vincat . Zur Historizität der vierten Catilinaria
This paper proposes a reading of Cicero’s Fourth Catilinarian as a consistent and historically realistic attempt at urging the senate to punish the conspirators. Cicero struggles against the senators’ inclination to postpone a decision out of fear of the consequences which a severe sentence might have. The speech does not show signs of substantial revision or even contamination of several addresses Cicero made at different stages of the meeting o…
Praise and Persuasion
This chapter maintains that the two Idylls under examination (11 and 17) suggest the ubiquitousness of rhetorical culture and Theocritus' mastery of rhetorical art. They presuppose knowledge of rhetorical theory. Nevertheless, the rhetorical strategies employed suggest that the poet goes beyond the ‘dictates’ of contemporary theory. These two Idylls toy with the expectations of the audience by exposing the failures of mere adherence to rhetorical…
Ein neues Textstück aus den „Scythica Vindobonensia“ zu den Ereignissen nach der Eroberung von Philippopolis
Der vorliegende Beitrag enthält die erste Transkription einer weiteren Palimpsestseite der Scythica Vindobonensia, der neuen, vermutlich Dexippos von Athen zuzuweisenden Fragmenten zu den Goteneinfällen in den Balkanraum während des 3. Jh. n.Chr. Der neue Text (f. 194r des Codex Vind. Hist. gr. 73) schildert offenbar die bisher unbekannte Reaktion der Griechen auf die Neuigkeit, dass Kniva (im Jahr 250 n.Chr.) Philippopolis eingenommen habe: Die …
Interpreting Instability
The text that has been preserved among Plutarch's writings under the title βίοι τῶν δέκα ῥητόρων ( Lives of the Ten Orators , henceforth LTO ) is, on the one hand, an invaluable and often the best source about the canonical Attic orators: it is, for example, our only source for the verdict against Antiphon after the oligarchic revolution of 411 and for Lycurgus’ state copy of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. On the other hand,…
The gods in the Athenian assembly
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion
Studied for many years by scholars with Christianising assumptions, Greek religion has often been said to be quite unlike Christianity: a matter of particular actions (orthopraxy), rather than particular beliefs (orthodoxies). This volume dares to think that, both in and through religious practices and in and through religious thought and literature, the ancient Greeks engaged in a sustained conversation about the nature of the gods and how to re…
Zum Angriff der Goten unter Kniva auf eine thrakische Stadt (Scythica Vindobonensia, f. 195v)
This paper completes the first presentation of the new historical fragments on Gothic incursions into the Balkans in the middle of the 3rd century AD. Coming most probably from the Scythica by Dexippus of Athens; the fragments have been preserved as palimpsest in the Vienna manuscript Vind. Hist. gr. 73. The paper contains a preliminary transcription; translation and analysis of one of the eight extant pages; fol. 195v; processed spectral images …
Euripides, "Ion"
Euripides' Ion is a highly complex and elusive play and thus poses considerable difficulties to any interpreter. On the basis of a new recension of the text, this commentary offers explanations of the language, literary technique, and realia of the play and discusses the main issues of interpretation. In this way the reader is provided with the material required for an appreciation of this entertaining as well as provocative dramatic composition
Speeches to the Assembly and in Public Prosecutions (DEM. 1–24)
Chapter 28 examines Demosthenes’ speeches in public prosecutions and before the Assembly, including speeches delivered during the early part of his career in the aftermath of the Social War and those against Philip II of Macedon delivered starting with the First Philippic (352/1) down to his masterpiece On the Crown at the trial of Ctesiphon in 330. Several of the speeches from the first period of Demosthenes’ career concern public finances, such…
Law and Justice
Chapter 6 examines the role of law and justice in the speeches of Demosthenes and other Greek orators. The Demosthenic corpus consists of 42 judicial speeches in which issues of justice are central and legal cases are assessed for their conformity with the laws of Athens. After discussing how the laws and justice figure in the oratory of Demosthenes, in connection with the judges’ expectations and with the rules and institutional habits that dete…
Authenticity, Composition, Publication
Chapter 32 focuses on the authenticity, composition, and publication of Demosthenes’ speeches. In discussing authenticity, three alternatives need to be taken into consideration. A speech could be either a genuine work of Demosthenes, a real speech from fourth-century Athens wrongly attributed to Demosthenes, or a later composition. Most, if not all, of the speeches fall into the first two categories, while the last is possibly but not necessaril…
Public Opinion and the Arenas of Debate
Chapter 5 examines the role of public opinion in Athenian debates in philosophical circles, especially in arenas such as public assemblies and law courts. It begins with a discussion of the dêmos’ attitudes and positions that occur in speeches, particularly in the political speeches and the prosecution and defence speeches from public trials. More specifically, it considers the attitudes of the dêmos towards the social and political elite as well…
Corruption
Chapter 13 examines the problem of corruption in Classical Athens. There are numerous references to corruption in Demosthenes, Attic oratory, and Greek literature. In an Athenian context, corruption typically involved the bribery of prominent officials. A central issue is ‘katapolitical’ bribery, or bribery at the expense of public interests or with intention to damage institutions or the community. The article considers the institutional and leg…
A Dialogic Soliloquy
In Euripides’ Hecuba , both the scholia and modern interpreters detect a failure of communication in the farewell scene between the protagonist and Polyxena—though the scholiast names Polyxena as the source of the non-dialogue, whereas the modern commentators claim that neither character is engaging. This paper aims, firstly, by a slight redistribution of lines, to restore coherence to the dialogue. Secondly, it argues that it is Hecuba’s rather …
The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes
As a speechwriter, orator, and politician, Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his time. He was a key player in Athens in the twilight of the city’s independence, and today he is a primary source for her history and society in that period. The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes sets out to explore the many facets of the man’s life, work, and time. It gives particular weight to elucidating the setting and the contexts of his activity and some k…
Pragmatic Approaches to Drama
discourse analysis, and pragmatics.He has a special interest in cognitive linguistic and narratological approaches to Greek narrative texts.
Christopher Collard
Nothing but Rhetoric? Rhetoric, Pragmatics and Myth-Making in the Agōn of Euripides’ Alcestis
This paper draws on Euripides’ Alcestis to propose a new way of approaching the tragic agōn . It reads the debate scene of that play not as a rhetorical showpiece but as a piece of dialogue and an interaction that follows the principles of communicative pragmatics. In this interpretation Admetus and Pheres do not aim to persuade each other about whether it would have been right for Pheres to sacrifice his life for his son; instead, father and son…
Thomas Blank, Felix K. Maier (Hrsgg.)
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